Amanda good evening. Welcome to the Hudson Library historical society. We are so happy you are here for the event. I am amanda flower, one of the here, andlibrarians tonight we are honored to welcome howard means to discuss kentew book 67 shots state and the end of american innocence. Campus,states main only 10 miles from here, where the shooting took place. We are very excited to have this program of national and local interest. Mr. Means is a editor at the washingtonian, author and coauthor of 10 books, including Andrew Johnson and the 45 days that changed the nation, Johnny Appleseed the man, the myth, an american story, and the first biography on colin powell. Please join me in welcoming mr. Means. [applause] means i also wrote 67 shots. [laughter] thank you, amanda. Veryaa herself is also a accomplished novelist in detective, mystery stories, won an Agatha Christie award. But you are stuck with me instead. I talked with a number of people who were at kent state, in 1970. Can you h
Was founded in 1894 and has been continuous ever since. Today well be going into the immersive West Virginia state museum. Well be talking about the early frontier and settlement period, the development of the state, becoming a state, the industrialization of the state, and well go into the later century, the 21st century, and see where West Virginia is today. Were in the West Virginia state museum settlement and frontier period. These are some of the earliest settlers of the land. Were standing beside George Washingtons case where it has specific artifacts such as his sword, his powder horn that he carved during the American Revolutionary war, and the telescope that he used to survey land here, as well as in the eastern panhandle. George washington would have been here in the mid 1700s. During this time period frontier and early settlement, this was western virginia. It was part of the state of virginia at the time and it was an area that wasnt greatly developed. A lot of the ideas of
Government. Next, a book tv exclusive. Our cities tour visits charleston, West Virginia, to learn more about its literary history. For years, we have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing the book seem to our viewers. You can watch more of our visits at cspan. Org citiestour. Booker t. Washington for 20 years was the spokesman and leader of africanamericans in america. At the time, we had horrible jim crow race codes in the south. That didnt happen here in West Virginia. It was a different sort of race relation. What he observed with his boyhood heroes was the building of a black middleclass, and that became his path, his career path, as he went from tuskegee to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born in a place called hill sport. It is about 225 miles from here. In those first nine years, he was a slave boy. He did not have pants. He wore a slave boy shirt. He wanted very much to go to school. He saw white children going to school but he wasnt unable to do those things. They leave the
To the northeast region including ethiopia, sudan and djibouti. His comments came at an event hosted by the Wilson Center and included a talk about china and the middle east influence in the region. [inaudible conversations]. That you so much to all of you for coming. Im very conscious of how close we are to thanksgiving, the dire reports that those of you who be traveling will have to face, so its fantastic youve taken time this point to be with us. Though im not surprised because of our guest who is with us today. Just a quick word about the Global Europe Program which i chair for the woodrow Wilson Center, this is a program we decide to do something a little bit different because it looks at the pressures and stresses and issues that confront the continent of europe, whether that the arctic and the issues of Climate Change and trade, whether thats migration, whether thats the big relationships with russia, china and and, of course, with the United States, and whether its issues that
Ladies and gentlemen, the recipients of the National Humanities medal, the claremont institu institute, lazano long. Patrick j oconnell, james patterso patterson. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and mrs. Trump. Thank you very much, please. The first lady and i would just like to welcome everyone to the white house, a special place, very, very special. No matter where you go in the world, this is one of those places that you never forget. This afternoon it is my immense privilege to present our nations highest honors for contributions to american art and culture, the National Medal of arts and the National Humanities medal. Please join me in congratulating each of todays recipients on their really, and i mean truly phenomenal achievement to the incredible achievement and congratulations to all. [applaus [applause] with us today are vicepresident mike pence. Mike thank you very much. Secretary steven mnuchin, secretary betsy devos. Thank you very much, betsy. Cha